<Tab/>Racism and prejudice has been a problem in the United States for along time. Poeple have been denied human rights such as getting a fair trial, eating in resturants, or sitting in what ever seat they want in a public bus. In 1955 a woman named Rosa Parks took a stand on a public bus in Montgomery Alabama. She refused to give her seat to a white man and was arrested …
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…National Advancement of Colored People, unsuccessfully attempted to vote many times to prove her point of discrimination, and had numerous encounters with bus drivers who discriminated against blacks. She received awards, like the NAACP's Spingarn Medal in 1970 and the Martin Luther King Jr. Award in 1980. Rosa Parks' stand was a mayjor om our society because she showed us that one person can help so many other people by standing up for what they believe in.